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« on: July 02, 2015, 11:23:52 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2015, 11:25:43 AM »

Initiated by a friend and partner of Paxton, bet there is something there.
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2015, 12:05:15 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.
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« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2015, 09:26:29 PM »

One of the hazards of single-party government: corruption. 
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« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2015, 10:50:30 PM »

Good. Time to brutally go after opponents of gay marriage.
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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2015, 11:43:35 PM »

Good. Time to brutally go after opponents of gay marriage.

More proof that some "progressives" aren't just happy winning.  They need to punish their perceived enemies and stifle all debate.
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« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2015, 01:36:46 AM »

One of the hazards of single-party government: corruption. 

Mediocrity, to boot. The Texas Republicans are starting to seem like that species of jellyfish that is only found in certain lakes and lacks any ability to sting - after thousands of years of having none of the natural predators that are found in oceans, they simply stopped needing to make an effort.

The deterioration of the caliber of downballot candidates in Texas really reached a tipping point in 2014. That someone like Ken Paxton - a man who, yes, did successfully graduate from law school, but whose career included no judicial clerkships or significant work in constitutional law, and who has spent the bulk of his career doing in-house legal work for companies and as a "financial advisor" - was a major party nominee for attorney general and was easily elected is a scandal in and of itself.
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« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2015, 03:14:12 AM »

I can think of no better name for a Texas Attorney General. The first thing that comes to my mind when hearing the name Paxton is that of a Confederate General.
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« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2015, 10:43:42 AM »

And this wasn't even the establishment choice for Attorney General in the Republican primary. These Tea Party types have baggage that is never seen until after they are elected.
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« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2015, 10:46:01 AM »

Good. Time to brutally go after opponents of gay marriage.

More proof that some "progressives" aren't just happy winning.  They need to punish their perceived enemies and stifle all debate.

Ayy lmao
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« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2015, 12:12:10 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Yeah, it smells more like a civil fine situation to me perhaps, rather than in crimbo territory.
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« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2015, 05:12:41 PM »

If someone stole this much from a bank, he would go to jail for 20 years, but when you steal it from investors, you get a fine and a slap on the wrist.
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« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2015, 10:59:04 PM »

One of the hazards of single-party government: corruption. 

Mediocrity, to boot. The Texas Republicans are starting to seem like that species of jellyfish that is only found in certain lakes and lacks any ability to sting - after thousands of years of having none of the natural predators that are found in oceans, they simply stopped needing to make an effort.

The deterioration of the caliber of downballot candidates in Texas really reached a tipping point in 2014. That someone like Ken Paxton - a man who, yes, did successfully graduate from law school, but whose career included no judicial clerkships or significant work in constitutional law, and who has spent the bulk of his career doing in-house legal work for companies and as a "financial advisor" - was a major party nominee for attorney general and was easily elected is a scandal in and of itself.

Just imagine the conflicts of interest with an AG who has been more involved in investment hustles than in criminal or constitutional law. Then vomit.
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« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2015, 12:24:13 AM »

Very excited here!
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« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2015, 12:02:10 PM »

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« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2015, 03:23:12 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?
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« Reply #16 on: July 05, 2015, 04:36:15 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?

Didn't the AG go after Kay Baily Hutchinson?
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« Reply #17 on: July 05, 2015, 06:44:17 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?

Didn't the AG go after Kay Baily Hutchinson?

Yes. It was over her alleged misuse of funds as state treasurer, but things veered way off topic and the grand jury was treated to bizarre stories of what a high maintenance diva KBH is and how she threw phone books at people who upset her.
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« Reply #18 on: July 06, 2015, 09:26:10 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?

Didn't the AG go after Kay Baily Hutchinson?

Yep. And don't forget thathalf-assed indictment brought against Perry a year or two ago. The Travis County DA is a joke in this regard.
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« Reply #19 on: July 06, 2015, 09:39:57 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?

Didn't the AG go after Kay Baily Hutchinson?

Yep. And don't forget that half-assed indictment brought against Perry a year or two ago. The Travis County DA is a joke in this regard.

If I recall correctly, they tried to nail Hutchinson for having an aide "improperly purchase" lipstick. Perry, of course, is under indictment for "abuse of power" after trying to remove the Travis County DA after she was arrested for driving while heavily intoxicated and making a complete fool of herself on camera.

Apparently it's a completely different county's DA office that's investigating him, though, although the Travis County office was the one that referred the case to them in the first place; I don't know how much initiative that took on Travis County's part, so this may or may not be the "political hit squad" at work here. The fact that the Travis Country office was involved at all is alone almost enough to call the seriousness of the allegations into question.
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« Reply #20 on: July 06, 2015, 09:59:44 PM »

Good. Time to brutally go after opponents of gay marriage.

More proof that some "progressives" aren't just happy winning.  They need to punish their perceived enemies and stifle all debate.

People like Paxton and Abbott have done much to worsen or ruin the lives of many LGBT people, so it's only "fair" that they get theirs. But I personally don't think that they should suffer any repercussions for their actions. Can you imagine how annoying and loud their whining would be? The moment a privileged class doesn't get what they want, they become insufferable (more so than they normally are). The fact that these people are in positions of power is bad enough. Ignoring them seems like the best course of action. Eventually they'll go away and the world will be a better place.
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« Reply #21 on: July 06, 2015, 10:01:23 PM »

interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?

Didn't the AG go after Kay Baily Hutchinson?

Yep. And don't forget that half-assed indictment brought against Perry a year or two ago. The Travis County DA is a joke in this regard.

If I recall correctly, they tried to nail Hutchinson for having an aide "improperly purchase" lipstick. Perry, of course, is under indictment for "abuse of power" after trying to remove the Travis County DA after she was arrested for driving while heavily intoxicated and making a complete fool of herself on camera.

Apparently it's a completely different county's DA office that's investigating him, though, although the Travis County office was the one that referred the case to them in the first place; I don't know how much initiative that took on Travis County's part, so this may or may not be the "political hit squad" at work here. The fact that the Travis Country office was involved at all is alone almost enough to call the seriousness of the allegations into question.

1. The governor does not have the authority to remove a county DA from office. What he did - make funding the PUI contingent on her resignation - amounted to blackmail.

2. There is no law requiring those convicted of a DUI to resign from public office in Texas. There have been many cases of elected officials getting busted for drunk driving and remaining in office. Why should a Democratic woman district attorney be held to a different standard?
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« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2015, 04:00:37 AM »

Good. Time to brutally go after opponents of gay marriage.

More proof that some "progressives" aren't just happy winning.  They need to punish their perceived enemies and stifle all debate.

People like Paxton and Abbott have done much to worsen or ruin the lives of many LGBT people, so it's only "fair" that they get theirs. But I personally don't think that they should suffer any repercussions for their actions. Can you imagine how annoying and loud their whining would be? The moment a privileged class doesn't get what they want, they become insufferable (more so than they normally are). The fact that these people are in positions of power is bad enough. Ignoring them seems like the best course of action. Eventually they'll go away and the world will be a better place.

It is necessary that people like Paxton face objective justice even if such does nothing to make Texas government any less plutocratic. Even so -- scandals and failures can break the power of entrenched elites in politics.

Texas had reasonably-good state government when the state was competitive in elections as late as the early 1990s. A diversity of opinions was part of the political debate. Now Texas state government has devolved to the usual concerns of a ruling elite unaccountable to any but well-heeled backers.
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« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2015, 07:12:44 AM »

Maybe Texas could be competetive if the dems would stop pushing clowns (ie: Davis and the Castro Brothers)
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2015, 08:02:37 AM »

"1. The governor does not have the authority to remove a county DA from office. What he did - make funding the PUI contingent on her resignation - amounted to blackmail.

"2. There is no law requiring those convicted of a DUI to resign from public office in Texas. There have been many cases of elected officials getting busted for drunk driving and remaining in office. Why should a Democratic woman district attorney be held to a different standard?"

It may be bad policy, and probably is, but to characterize a governor basing his funding decisions on personalities a crime strikes me as close to ludicrous. It is another example of the attempt to criminalize political decisions.
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